ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): Lok Virsa would organize screening of
Turkish Film ‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ on Saturday at its Media
Center.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a 2011 Turkish drama film,
co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true
experience of one of the film’s writers, telling the story of a
group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe.
The film, which went on nationwide general release across
Turkey on September 23, 2011, premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was a co-winner of the Grand Prix.
The film story is based on real events. One of Ceylan’s
co-writers was an actual doctor and in order to attain his license,
had been required to work for two years in the town where the plot
is set.
The story in the film is based on very similar events the
co-writer experienced during this period.
The film was produced through Turkey’s Zeyno Film, in
co-production with the Bosnian company Production 2006 Sarajevo and
the Turkish companies NBC Film, 1000 Volt Post Production, the
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, Imaj and Fida Film.
Filming took place during eleven weeks around Keskin, a
district of the Kirikkale Province in Central Anatolia. It was shot
in the CinemaScope format.